On Wed, 10 Dec 2003 at 12:35 GMT, Burkhard Woelfel penned: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 10 December 2003 06:16, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> I've been running 2.4.21. I had Debian's 2.4.21-5 and now see that >> 2.4.21-6 is available, with the fix that's been on everyone's mind. >> >> Can I safely just copy a few files over from the previous build, or >> might there be changes that would require a more careful procedure? >> Can I use `make oldconfig` when it's really still the same kernel >> version? >> >> If it *is* as simple as copying over files, do I just need .config, >> or is there more to the story? > > No, that's all there is to it. Copy .config into your kernel source > directory and 'make oldconfig'. I think there won't be any differences > between the two versions you are compiling, but who knows - make > oldconfig is for checking and handling exactly this issue. >
Awesome! Thanks muchly. It seems to be working, but I guess I won't know till this lilo bug gets fixed ... -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
